FLASH SUCKS!

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports sites?
why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use flash like crazy?
my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

ok, done venting.

snow!

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jmed

I too have noticed this (see a previous thread on Burton's website, if I
recall).

I noticed Ride's website is very light on this stuff...and for that I'm
very happy. but they still use javascript popups for links and to me
that's a no no. I'd never design a site that way, because I don't
expect a user to want to navigate a site that way.

bri

Jason Medeiros wrote:

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports sites?
why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use flash like crazy?
my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

ok, done venting.

snow!




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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:06:18 GMT, "Jason Medeiros"
allegedly wrote:

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports
sites? why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use
flash like crazy? my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

Hardly news Jason. It's sucked for ages :-)

- Dave.

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"Switters" wrote

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports
sites? why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use
flash like crazy? my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

Hardly news Jason. It's sucked for ages :-)

Flash itself as a technology is actually Ok. It's just that designers
can't refrain from creating unusable sites using its features :/

Switters wrote:
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:06:18 GMT, "Jason Medeiros"
allegedly wrote:

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports
sites? why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use
flash like crazy? my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

Hardly news Jason. It's sucked for ages :-)

- Dave.

Yup, plain text worked well. Why html was developed or w3c came into being
we'll never know - there's evidently no reason to take things further and
move on. All this new development stuff must be worthless. A bit like blues
into rock, dictatorship into democracy, surfing into snowboarding . What a
waste of time. Who needs the next level when we've got what we've got?



DB

Dmitry wrote:
"Switters" wrote


please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports
sites? why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use
flash like crazy? my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

Hardly news Jason. It's sucked for ages :-)


Flash itself as a technology is actually Ok. It's just that designers
can't refrain from creating unusable sites using its features :/



Flash has never really bothered me much as far as websites are
concerned. As long as the designer keeps the file size to a minimum,
the time to download isn't all that much. What bugs me most of the time
is when a designer comes up with really pretty page (whether flash or
not), but forgets that it also has to function smoothly also. As for
Javascript, some of the features of it are invaluable to those of us who
set up or run merchant sites, but some of the most used aspects of it
are the annoying ones.

Rick

BTW, I use Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird exclusively and have never
had any issues with them at all. I highly recommend them.

Hardly news Jason. It's sucked for ages :-)

- Dave.


heh~
yeah, i'm good at bitching about longstanding BS...;-)

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jmed

Yup, plain text worked well. Why html was developed or w3c came into being
we'll never know - there's evidently no reason to take things further and
move on. All this new development stuff must be worthless. A bit like
blues
into rock, dictatorship into democracy, surfing into snowboarding . What a
waste of time. Who needs the next level when we've got what we've got?



not saying that. i'm all for tech and the benes we get from it. thinking
'outside the box' is a good thing too.

as for flash, if we used it in moderation, that might help things a bit.
any site saturated in flash is clunky and irritating (imo) to navigate.

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That's right, why back in the day we all used lynx and we LOVED it.
snoig

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:06:18 -0700, "Jason Medeiros"
wrote:

please pass this info along to all your friendly favorite snowsports sites?
why the heck do all these ski/board/gear manufacturers use flash like crazy?
my firefox browser just says NO to this crap.

I don't see anything inherently wrong with Flash (tho it is often used
badly). Perhaps you should consider a more useful browser?


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